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[Canzonett]

At least the footnoterisation already seems to start working. Did you notice that Amy's latest post (Tuesday, 3 July 2007, 1:53) used little footnote-signs ("1") instead of apostrophs?

[Etta]

I've found FOOTNOTES!!

[Canzonett]

Etta - gorgeous discovery! I must check that immediately.

I entered those words, according to Jasper's instructions, right here:

www.jasperfforde.com/TESTWORD.html

Replace "TESTWORD" by any given term.

OK. About those updated footnotes ...

[Etta]

Jasper also underlined "place" in his email (that he locked this character in a place).

I've now tried:

Brindisi
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Robinson Crusoe
ocean
here+eeee

They seemed to all be places, but no luck.

Weren't the minor characters supposed to know the key? Are any of the footnotes from monor characters does anyone know?

[Sarah B]

Wow, things moved fast this afternoon!

A thought on the location we're hunting for.

[cows]

If I remember correctly the clue (or maybe a google reference after searching for the clue) of 3 men in a boat said something about the river Thames... Therefore location being London

Just checked, but no cigar...

Checked and failed:

{see below}

--edit--

Just checked Wikipedia for three men in a boat:

[Sarah B]

Thought on June's identity:

From all the mention of Peter and Wendy, and ffake Ffforde's comments about June being a 'C list' character, I wondered if maybe she was a background character from Peter Pan. Sure enough...

[Etta]

Good thinking about Three Men in a Boat. I checked on Wikipedia and it said there that the story is about their journey along the Thames between Kingston and Oxford. No luck with either kingston or oxford though. Might footnote 6 ("all I ddddddd can see is endless BLEEDING ocean") be a clue? Is anyone good with geography or history in that particular area?

[Canzonett]

Would Wendy's daughter be that naive and helpless, I wonder?

And even though the BookCam example place was "Wonderland" - shouldn't we rather look for some location mentioned in Jasper's own books than in the classics? After all, how is he supposed to have placed Ffforde in one of the latter? Typing his own copy of "Three men in a boat" or "Alice"?

And again: I believe that "BLEEDING ocean" to be the text sea, judging from the letter chaos surrounding those words!

[Sarah B]

I agree about the Text Sea.

Also, I beg to differ on the location. Mainly because Jasper's books do contain all of those places, because he writes about the Great Library where all books are contained:

[Sarah B]

Oh, and another thing to say June is a book character; Jasper calls her june not June. She's not earned her capitalisation yet...

As for Wendy's daughter not being naive; she's naive enough to want to fly to Neverland with Peter!

[Canzonett]

"SwordoftheZenobians" didn't work, either ...

[myf]

BLEEDING ocean referring to the text sea certainly seems plausible. I can vouch for the fact that there's no ocean between Kingston and Oxford, though there has been some minor localised flooding recently

[Canzonett]

We shouldn't forget Ffforde's strange habits of speech - they might be a clue to the place of his imprisonment. Some non-English book perhaps? Or some place with next to no proper text at all? (Washing instruction label?)

[myf]

I've always felt that Haversham was a book character of some sort - her language and puzzlement about apparently simple things seemed odd. I can't remember much about how the generics work - is it possible for them to be a combination of two characters? In this case, perhaps Miss Havisham and this Jane from Peter Pan.

Out of curiosity, does the real original Miss Havisham actually have a first name? The blurbs I've read don't mention one.